Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection
Pablo Picasso
Composition
Estimate
1,200,000 - 1,800,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Composition
signed Picasso, dated Paris 11 janvier XXXIV and dedicated pour Madame Callery (lower right)
pen, India ink, brush and wash on paper
36.2 by 50.2 cm. 14¼ by 19¾ in.
Executed on 11 January 1934.
Mary Callery, New York (acquired as a gift from the artist and until at least 1958)
Christie’s, New York, 9 November 1994, lot 40
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Callery Collection: Picasso–Léger, 1945, n.n. (titled Lysistrata)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, Picasso, 75th Anniversary Exhibition, 1957, p. 73, listed (titled Study for illustrations to “Lysistrata”)
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Picasso: A Loan Exhibition of his Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Ceramics, Prints and Illustrated Books, 1958, no. 135, n.p., illustrated (titled Study for illustrations to “Lysistrata”)
“The Callery Collection: Picasso–Léger,” Philadelphia Museum Bulletin, vol. XL, no. 204, January 1945, p. 39 (titled Lysistrata)
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Catalogue de l’Œuvre de 1932-1937, vol. 8, Paris, 1957, pl. 70, p. 160, illustrated (with incorrect dimensions)
Josep Palau i Fabre, From the Minotaur to Guernica (1927-1939), Barcelona, 2011, no. 547, p. 174, illustrated (with incorrect dimensions)
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